Cross references

Proverbs 7:12

Now in the street, now in the squares,

she lurks at every corner.

Proverbs 7:12 BSB

Proverbs 7:12 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 23:28 (5 votes) and Proverbs 9:14 (4 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 38 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Proverbs 7:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.

  2. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,

  3. All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

  4. “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  5. How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

  6. How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

  7. “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

  8. you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.

  9. But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

  10. The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

Which verses point to Proverbs 7:12?

The 10 strongest of 12.